So has Aether crashed again?

[Exiled_Tonberry]

I haven't played any other MMO so I'll just ask, does this happen often on other MMO like LoL or WoW?
This happens every patch too, maintain after maintenance after hotfix.

[SDaemon]

I haven't played any other MMO so I'll just ask, does this happen often on other MMO like LoL or WoW?
This happens every patch too, maintain after maintenance after hotfix.

Can't speak for LoL, but it happens to WoW with content patches and expansions every time.

[Nabiri]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...bd736edcefd1af

Hoping to be able to play in the morning then.
Doubt it'll be back up tonight as the cause is under investigation.

[JediFirefly]

I haven't played any other MMO so I'll just ask, does this happen often on other MMO like LoL or WoW?
This happens every patch too, maintain after maintenance after hotfix.

This rarely happens on WoW (at least when I used to play it) BUt WoW had a much different maintenance structure. The game was brought offline weekly for a 6 hour maintenance.

[Greydor]

So if you plan your date night and go to a movie and the reel breaks halfway through and the theater says "Sorry, please wait 5 hours for the 1 1/2 hour feature to continue." and you get mad about that, your logic suggests I have an addiction?

That actually sounds like fun! You plan a date, and then all of a sudden, the movie stops. Wait 5 1/2 hours? No way! I'd take my wife to do something spontaneous, like walk around the town square, or go get Andy's (amazing ice cream for those of you who live near one). Wow, I really need to take my wife on a date night. Your comment reminded me to do so!

[SDaemon]

This rarely happens on WoW (at least when I used to play it) BUt WoW had a much different maintenance structure. The game was brought offline weekly for a 6 hour maintenance.

WoW still has regular maintenance as well as rolling start hotfixes, but at least since Cata it has had regular maintenance and crashes following patches and expansions.

[NolLacnala]

I wonder if they can move Balmung

[TaleraRistain]

Yes, I have seen this in every MMO I've ever played after patches and I've been playing them since early EQ. Code can do unexpected things. Hardware can do unexpected things. Putting them both together can cause unexpected things, especially with a major change like the cross-server PF. I'm honestly surprised we haven't been down more. I remember days of patches in EQ or EQII or WoW after massive changes were put into place.

[SnugglesD]

If the cause is overpopulation, a test server would not discover this issue, and they are usually not as populated. and its not just 1 server, but multiple causing the issue, assuming this is the cause.

You really think the cause is overpopulation? The population of this game has only gone one direction since the wait for 3.1.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You really think the cause is overpopulation? The population of this game has only gone one direction since the wait for 3.1.

It doesnt matter if overall subs are down if half the remaining population (exaggeration, but it gets my point across) moved to Balmung and Gilgamesh.

If 2 servers have combined what an entire datacenter should have for population, there is going to be issues.